Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition has officially arrived on Steam, and thankfully it does work on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.
In the Steam release announcement the developers noted "We will continue to make optimizations to improve compatibility on handheld PC gaming devices" so hopefully the experience on Steam Deck will get improvements in that. Additionally they're working on bringing AMD FSR 3 including Frame Generation in a future update.
As reported earlier by me, Valve released updates to both Proton Experimental and Proton Hotfix recently although there was no announcement on Proton Hotfix changes just yet, we can now see that at least on Steam Deck that Valve picked Proton Hotfix by default. So Proton Hotfix likely has some adjustments in it needed for the best experience.
Steam Deck shots provided by one of our Discord moderators, running it on the default settings (click to enlarge):
Good to see another fresh release working thanks to Proton! Early areas at least seem to give around 30FPS, but as we know from games this big, later areas may bring performance down just like the first game that can cause some issues.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Ryzen 7 5800x
Radeon RX 6800 XT
32g ram
3440x1440
all settings on "high" in game
no upscaling/frame gen/etc
all the garbage stuff like chromatic aberration turned off (not sure if this helps perf at all?)
Pretty wonderful what these devs have accomplished. Now to get out of the tutorial mode and start exploring the world! I know a lot of people were turned off by the open world of the first game, but I absolutely loved it. Completely almost every single thing there was to do. I hope I plan on doing the same here!
Anyone knows how well the busier sections perform?
Last edited by MayeulC on 21 March 2024 at 5:54 pm UTC
After a couple, I thought I might want to try to stream it to my deck and from there output to my TV, but boy, it's a mess.
With Steam Remote Play my controller won't work in the game. With Sunshine, which I've tried for the first time, Resolution is messed up, Controller connection is flaky at best - for whatever reason - and quality isn't up to par.
If Valve had to fix two things with the deck it would be Remote Play and those god damn download speeds when transferring data from my main PC to the deck - I gave up and am installing it directly on the deck now.
But, again, wonderful game.
Good to see day 1 working big titles on Linux though!
Happy for those who want to play this!
Quoting: KROMI'm just happy I don't have to buy a PS these days to experience games like this.
PS owners are really upset that their precious exclusives are now available to the PC Master Race®. I was dubious about this until I saw it with my own eyes, when I mentioned it while talking to one of those dirty peasants.
slaapliedje Mar 22
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